16 – Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā ibn Ḥassān, known as Ibn al-Tustarī * (B, M, D, N, Q)

The imam, hadith scholar, and reliable transmitter, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Miṣrī, widely called Ibn al-Tustarī(1).

He heard ḥadith from Ḍimām ibn Ismāʿīl, Mufaḍḍal ibn Faḍāla, ʿAbd Allāh ibn Wahb, Bishr ibn Bakr, Azhar ibn Saʿd al-Sammān, and others.

Narrations from him appear in five of the Six Canonical Collections—al-Bukhārī, Muslim, Abū Dāwūd, al-Nasāʾī, and Ibn Mājah—while al-Tirmidhī alone omits him. He was likewise cited by Abū Zurʿah, Abū Ḥātim, Ibrāhīm al-Ḥarbī, Yūsuf the judge, Abū Yaʿlā al-Mawṣilī, Abū al-Qāsim al-Baghawī, and many others.

Al-Nasāʾī and others said, “There is nothing objectionable about him.”

Abū Bakr al-Khaṭīb used to say, “I have never seen any sound argument for abandoning his ḥadith as a proof.”(2)

When Abū Zurʿah reviewed Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim he remarked, “Muslim transmits from Aḥmad ibn ʿĪsā in the Ṣaḥīḥ, yet I have never found the people of Egypt in doubt that he—” and he pointed to his tongue.